Laying Low in Great Ming, Leveling Up to Immortality and Outliving Zhu Yuanzhang

After transmigrating to the final years of the Hongwu reign in the Ming dynasty, Chen Changxian knows that serving the emperor is like walking beside a tiger.

He decides that playing it safe comes first, and hides away as an unnoticed clerk in the Hanlin Academy's library.

Luckily, he awakens the Roll-Call System. Just showing up for work each day earns him attribute points!

[First day on the job: Constitution +1, acquired the cultivation art The Secret of Longevity!]

[Ten years on the job: Comprehension +100, max-level deduction of the Ming dynasty's fate!]

While the outside world is swept up in bloodshed and the Jingnan Campaign rages, Chen Changxian drinks tea and spends points in his attic library.

Now and then, bored, he casually offers advice to the chubby fellow who keeps borrowing books (Zhu Gaochi). The man is so impressed that he soon secures the position of crown prince.

Once, Chen Changxian jots down a note to wedge under a wobbly table. After reading it, the Black-Clad Prime Minister Yao Guangxiao drops to his knees and cries, “A terrestrial immortal!”

Over the decades, the officials in the Ming court come and go, but Chen Changxian in the library never ages.

Then the Tumu Crisis erupts. Half a million troops are wiped out, and foreign armies reach the gates of the capital.

With every attribute already beyond human limits, Chen Changxian reluctantly pushes open the library doors.

“I just wanted to quietly clock in. How did the Ming end up unable to get by without me?”

He takes one step forward, and the world changes color. An immortal descends to earth!